Whas happened in sports last night. Soccer Friendly: Well, at least he showed up. Diego Maradona’s first game as Argie manager was saved from a less than auspicious beginning when Atletico Madrid winger Maxi banged home the game’s only...

Whas happened in sports last night. NFL: Oh boy, the Jets would’ve been eaten alive by… well, everyone even slightly affiliated or covering the team after New York gave up a literal last second touchdown to the Patriots to...

It seems that the Argentinian soccer squad isn’t the only thing that could be without Diego Maradona. A cadre of judges have issued over 100 restraining orders blocking certain internet sites “in an attempt to expunge allegedly inappropriate references...

On the eve of his inaugural run as the head of Argentina’s most prized resource—its soccer team—Diego Maradona is reportedly threatening to quit as the team’s manager because he wanted Oscar Ruggeri to be his assistant coach. The leaks...

Whas happened in sports last night. NBA: The Lakers decided to make winning their seventh game to open the season as thrilling as possible. They blew a 23-point third-quarter lead against New Orleans, who rallied to come as close...

Whas happened in sports last night. NFL: Kurt Warner and his 50 year old bionic arm threw for three touchdowns as the Cardinals snatched a win out of San Francisco’s maw last night. It was the first time that...

Whas happened in sports last night. NBA: The battle of Texas last night has nothing to do with Electoral Votes. Dallas downed Antonio to drop Tony Parker and the Spurs to 0-3 for the first time in 35 years....

With Diego Maradona becoming Argentina’s national coach last week, it didn’t take long for the tension between the new coach and his supposed successor—Leo Messi—to reach the sports pages from Buenos Aires to Barcelona, and everywhere in between. Stemming...

Things are surely looking good lately for Diego Maradona, aren’t they? He’s got a granddaughter on the way, Argentina just named him the next coach of their national soccer team and his legion of fans lost their puto minds...

Speculation turned into fact today as the Argentine National Soccer team, coachless since Alfio Basile stepped down after losing to Chile in a World Cup qualifier earlier this month, offered Diego Maradona the job. After being called in after...

When Argentina lost to Chile last week during a World Cup qualifier, it sent a shockwave throughout Buenos Aries that literally broke the national team apart. Its manager, Alfio Basile, was so disgusted about losing to the Chileans—Chileans, of...

Though we’d rather be reading about Rock en Espanol taking over Charlotte, NC, we couldn’t ignore news of Diego Maradona possibly taking a position on Inter Milan’s coaching staff sometime in November. Coach Massimo Moratti plans to bring Maradona...

Diego Maradona likes to snort crack and give advice all on the same day. Asked about Lionel Messi’s current strife with Spanish club FC Barcelona about joining his native Argentina in the Beijing Olympics, Maradona has offered Messi a...

Of all the serenades in all the world, we think Ritchie Valens singing “Oh Donna” over a public telephone has got to be the greatest. But this Manu Chao rendition of his own song “La Tombola” (a song that...

No pressure wittle baby “Kun”, but if you don’t come out scorching down 90 yards of soccer pitch without ever touching a defender, and if you don’t dedicate your life to the Argentine guey, then you should just stay...

Psychotic psycho man, Diego Maradona, is topping the charts of “The World’s Craziest Fuckers” again. Diego is currently reigning terror in Cannes, where he is promoting a new documentary based on his days as a legendary soccer player, but...

Diego Maradona took part in a charity match orchestrated by some dude named Eros Ramazzotti. Roma’s Francisco Totti was one of two coaches to participate in the match. There were also actors, Formula One racers and numerous folk who...

We live for Diego Maradona’s craziest moments. His tenacity, insanity and coke-inspired belligerence are the reason we scour the Argentine headlines hoping and waiting for the next “Maradona Crazy Watch” episode to unfold. Described episode is here, friends. Diego...

If you lead your team to a World Cup title, like Brazilian legend Romario did in 1994, you’re free to talk a little smack. But like any good junkie will tell you, be careful with the smack you decide...

Watching both Pele and Diego Maradona spar against each other in a bout of supremacy over who eez thee greatest soccer player that EVER played the game parallels somewhere alongside watching water drip from leaves in a rain forest...

Wednesday we told you about the possibility Diego Maradona would participate in the Olympic torch run in Argentina. The Olympics committee designated the first 200 yards of the run to Diego Maradona, but the Argentine never showed up. Instead...

Wow, has an inanimate object ever received the chilly reception across continents the Olympic Torch has gotten this year? Attacked in Europe and protested in North America, the symbol for the Olympic games may now suffer the greatest ignominy...

An Iranian President and an Argentine soccer legend walk into a bar…We give it a few months before that becomes a realization seeing as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced his approval of Diego Maradona yesterday. The two have been...

If you hadn’t noticed, SI’s Vault is open for article reaping. We’ve been perusing their stash and have come across numerous classic covers. Unfortunately, there isn’t much dedicated to soccer. It keeps our searches short (which we love), but...

What is your idol’s autograph worth? For Italian tennis player Potito Starace, it’s enough to smooth over a rough patch he hit with his idol, Diego Maradona. It all started when the Argentine decided to give Starace a bit...

Diego Maradona took his toked out mind onto a stage in Buenos Aires this weekend to perform “Si No Te Hubieras Ido” with Marco Antonio Solis at Luna Park Stadium in Buenos Aires. Fans adored the spectacle by cheering...

Boca Juniors will forever revere their mythically crack-tillian magistrate known as Diego Maradona for his loyalty to their club. The luster Maradona brings to the impoverished surrounding of Boca Juniors will always be remembered, admired and embraced. But the...

A loaded up Diego Maradona is hilarious to watch, but if you’re a professional tennis player taking part in a match, and Maradona is sandblasting you via insults for all to hear, then maybe it’s not as funny. Italian...

We’ve been holding out on this one, but we can’t deny it’s gloriousness any longer. The announcer describes Diego Maradona’s moves as “slaloming.” That’s just terrific. Remember, send your “Goal Of The Day” suggestions to tips[at]machochip[dot]com....

If we were to debate about who is the greatest player in soccer history, we’d start drinking immediately in order to quell the frustration. Arguing for Pele or Diego Maradona is like bickering over which beer is better: Bud...

Now these are the real Diego Maradona highlights we love. [YouTube] FIFA 08’ can be purchased in 94 different varieties. Take that Baskin Robbins. [Kotaku]...

We won’t meddle with superfluous rants concerning Diego Maradona. Everyone knows that he’s not regarded as the greatest soccer player of all time because of his cocaine addiction; the fact he turned into the Good Year blimp a few...

When it comes to goal-scoring and snorting ten foot lines of coke, Maradona was always (and may be) the best. As far as coaching, Argentina would rather have a blind donkey at the helm instead of Diego. And it’s...

Diego Maradona spit fire against Brit newspaper The Sun after they reported that he’d apologized for his controversial 1986 World Cup goal against England—the one in which he used his fist to guide the game-winning goal into the back...

Open captions for your creative pleasure. “Boludo. Pero la metistes con tu mano.” Image [AP]...

Diego Maradona Jr. exists? Wait. Let us start over. Diego Maradona Jr. has alleged that “Spanish clubs” form the “top two divisions” have contacted him and he is awaiting for “something” to develop. He told Brazilian website globoesporte.com: “There...

How and why any English club would allow Diego Maradona to set foot on English territory is beyond. But, what the hell do we know? Diego made a cameo this weekend at Chesea FC’s camp because, well, he had...

High doses of Adrenaline can cause severe delusions. Take Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic. He just defeated tennis Goliath Roger Federer in a semifinals showdown at the Australian Open. Having set himself up for his first possible grand slam...

Here is a video of Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez playing a hybrid soccer/volleyball game Diego obviously thought of during a crazed Medellin night in 1984. There are so many questions we want answered: why is Messi...

Diego Maradona’s retirement from soccer has been a decades worth of coke dust and intense fatness. He’s constantly sputtering out non-sense about revolution, indirectly hating the Jews and his prowess as supreme tax evader is, honestly, inspiring. Yeah, we’re...

Diego Maradona professed his admiration for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week and he managed to tick off a number of Jewish families who were part of a 1994 bombing tragedy in Iran. “I believe Maradona is wrong and...

Diego Maradona sent Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an autographed jersey for Christmas because talking Hugo Chavez dolls were all sold out at Toys ‘R’ Us this year. Maradona amplified his nuttiness last week when he declared he wanted to...

Christmas weekend usually means that we have to take part in food preparations. We hate that because we always get stuck ruining something. Whether it’s accidentally breaking glass in the rompope, or knocking off our beanie in the beans,...

We experience an unsettling sense of anxiety whenever we see Diego Maradona’s name in a headline. “What did this psycho say this time,” we say; and then we immediately check off a notch on the quota hatchet. So when...

Yeah we know this video is old. You’ve probably seen it a million times, huddled in your room, reciting to yourself that he’s the greatest soccer player that ever lived. You’ve gawked it, in utter disbelief that someone who...

You didn’t think we’d go a whole 24 hours without covering some sort of soccer scandal, did you? El Nuevo Herald reports that the 1978 Peruvian National Soccer team was bribed by coke mongers from Colombia, which inevitably led...

Our favorite pee-on, Diego Maradona, recently gained an advisory position (whatever the hell that means) with Boca Juniors. It was rumored this week that his first challenge consisted of finding a replacement for current coach Miguel Angel Russo. Maradona...

Diego Maradona wants to make it clear to the entire world that he’s not going away any time soon; or ever. He recently divulged his disgust with Kaká’s triumph over Lionel Messi as the new Footballer of the Year....

We haven’t talked about our favorite Argentine-loony in quite some time. Fortunately, Diego paid a surprise visit to the Boca Juniors camp today to try and instill some extra motivation for the team’s upcoming matches.That’s rich. It’s been rumored...

It’s been a few weeks since Diego Maradona has peeked his coked-out head out from under his weight of arrogance, but news came today that the Argentine owes 34million Euros ($87million Washingtons) in back taxes to Italy. Around 23million...